Aristotle's History of Animals, translated from Greek by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (Oxford, 1910), in 500 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages, with extensive notes and diagrams.  Attached to the document is a multilingual HTML version of the translation proper. Wikipedia has a main entry on the author, the Greek polymath  Aristotle (384 to 322 B.C.), and a group of related entries: "His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts...The influence of his physical science extended from late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages into the Renaissance, and was not replaced systematically until the Enlightenment." There is also an entry about his History of Animals, a pioneering work on zoology. Book digitized by Google and compiled by Robert Bedrosian. Internet Archive has a selection of works by or about Aristotle.

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